Baby's 2-month Appointment

I never did blog about Rex's two month appointment....

We had his two month appointment the week I returned from camping. He was actually 11 weeks when we finally made it to the doctor. He weighed in at 14 lbs. We also decided to finally get his tongue clipped. I had Bo come along to the appointment, I couldn't handle the thought of having to hold him down.

I posted on Facebook that we had it done, and got a response from a friend of mine that she wanted to know more about it. So I thought for informational purposes I'd post part of the email I sent her:

"Anyway, here's my story. Yes, it is genetic, although we don't know where it came from (my husband is adopted so we are working with a blank slate for his medical history - needless to say we are always discovering new things). Anyway, I did a LOT of research on it. Ya see, my daughter has it too, but her's isn't that bad. From what I read there are different "degrees" of severity of it. We never knew she had it until this baby came along, so we never clipped hers. She nursed okay, it was a struggle at first but we always thought that was because she came early. Her's also wasn't as bad as my sons. When he would cry he had what they call a "heart-shaped" tongue - I don't remember Meghan having that. We talked to our doctor(we just go to a Family Practice Doctor instead of a Pediatrician, there aren't many of those in a small town, and we actually really like our Family Practice, the doctor is a guy in our ward), we talked to him at EJ's one week appointment and he suggested that we get it clipped, I wasn't sold on the idea yet so I told him I'd talk to my husband about it and get back to him. At that point I hadn't done much research on it. I did a whole bunch of research, including talking to a Midwife about it. The Midwife is a little holistic, so she said it's pretty much a cosmetic thing, but in some extreme cases it needs to be done, but that pretty much it will work itself out. I decided I was too scared to do it, it freaked me out to think about them sticking scissors in his mouth. In all honesty, it still does... Anyway, one of the reasons I thought we should get it done is because it can cause a lisp. When I read this online, I realized that my daughter has one already. It's so slight that if it's not pointed out, you wouldn't really notice it. In the end, my husband and I decided to get it done because we don't want him to have a lisp. A lisp on a girl can be cute, and lisp on a boy.... you get my point. :) So for his 2-month appointment, we had the doctor do it. It took all of two seconds and he didn't really even cry. The rest of the day he spent sticking it out and playing with it. It bleed just a tiny bit and was red for 2 days, but today, the third day, it looks fine. His nursing didn't really improve, mostly because he was a good nurser to begin with. So I can't really tell a difference yet, but I do see that it's not pulling anymore. Without it clipped it pulled at the front of his tongue pretty bad.

I was lucky to have a friend that had had it done to her daughter. She (the friend) had it when she was little and had it clipped when she was like 15, but even with clipping it, she still has a bit of a lisp. The internet says if it's not done before they learn to speak, they need speech therapy to correct the lisp. Her daughter wasn't nursing at all, and they didn't figure it out (she took her kids to a different doctor who couldn't figure out what was wrong, but then took her to our Family Practice and they figured it out there), and our doctor clipped it. It had taken so long to figure out what was wrong that my friend had dried up in the mean time and then couldn't nurse her. So she was bottle fed. But it was nice to have someone I knew go through it.

I was lucky enough to have a good nurser. He's been good from the beginning. He's never struggled with weight, and that can be a side-effect of being tongue tied. I think I probably had sore, bloody nipples for longer because of it, but I made it through it. He still gets a bad latch every once in a while, but other than that he's done really well.

It really was a stressful thing to decide for me. I had to look at it like circumcision, it was cosmetic, but necessary. Hopefully it makes his quality of life better for just a little bit of pain. Also, my husband went with me so he held him, I don't think I could've done it by myself. I'm such a wimp! :)"

Probably too much information, but maybe it will help someone... Anyway, all in all the 2-month appointment went really well. He'll be 3 months on Sunday, where has the time gone? ...oh yeah, I remember, a lot of sleep-less nights!

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Dear Baby Rex,

Sorry about the cheese that I caked on top of my spaghetti tonight for dinner.

And also for the giant brownie sundae I had for dessert with extra chocolate syrup.

I'll pay for it later with your screams and cries.

But it sure tasted good.

I miss cheese.... and ice cream.

I still love you. Please forgive me.

Love,
Your mom

Curious...

I'm starting to think about weight loss... And I'm still breastfeeding of course, but any of you moms out there, when did you start working out and how did that fit in or effect your breastfeeding? Naturally, breastfeeding is my #1 priority, but getting the weight off is definitely a close one to the top of my list. As you can see from my "I-have-no-shame" weight tracker on the sidebar, I've slowed in my weight loss. So I was just curious...